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No. 622,043. Patented Mar. 28, I899. J. A. HEANY.

HAND STAMP.

(Application filed Mar. 23, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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JOHN A. I'IEANY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO J. IVALTER DOUGLASS,-OF SAME PLACE.

HAND-STAM P.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 622,043, dated March 28, 1899.

Application filed March 23, 1898- 1'0 (066 whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN A. HEANY, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hand: Stamps, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has relation to a hand-stamp of the type known as rubber stamps for dating and similar purposes, wherein a portion of the printing-face ismovable to change the type portion thereof; and in such connection it relates particularly to the construction and arrangement of such a stamp.

The principal object of my invention is to provide a hand-stamp for dating and similar purposes the printing-face and frame or support of which are both flexible and a portion or portions of the printing-face is or are changeable,whereby in use such printing-face may be readily and accurately presented to a surface to be printed upon irrespective of the fact whether or not the surface is flat, slightly rounded, or angular, and wherein portions of said printing-face may likewise be readily and quickly changed.

My invention consists of a hand-stamp constructed and arranged in substantially the manner hereinafter described and claimed.

The nature and scope of my invention will be more fully understood from the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly sectioned, of a hand-stamp embodying main features of my invention. Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view taken on the line a: x of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a side elevational view, partly sectioned, of a modified form of the stamp illus trated in Figs. 1 and 2; and Fig. 4. is acrosssectional view on the line 3 y of Fig. 3.

Referring to Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings, a represents the handle, and b the flexible frame, of the stamp, adapted to be united together preferably by one or more screws or pins d. The frame I) is preferably made of spring metal and is of angular or inverted-V shape in cross-section, so as to be readily flexible in a horizontal direction. Around type f of the strip 6.

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ing or type-face f. In the strip e at suitable points are formed grooves or channels 6 in which are adapted to move endless flexible bands 9, carrying type g. The handle a is cut out, as at a, to permit of the movement of the bands g and type g upon the flexible strip e.

In the operation of the stamp illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 the flexible endless bands gare set so as to present the required type g alongside of and in proper relationship to the fixed If now the stamp be pressed against a rounded or angular surface, the strip 6 and the bands Q will belly or concave inward and the frame I) will contact laterally, so as to assume a more acute-angular shape in cross-section. The frame Z), strip 6, and bands will therefore all yield during the imprinting.

In the modified form of stamp illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4 the strip or band 6 instead of being continuous is divided into three or more sections united at their base to a continuous printing-face f, having a series of cut-out portions f designed to receive the printingtype g of the endless bands g. In this form the endless bands 9 slide directly pon the metal frame Z), the lower ends of which directly under the bands are cut out and are inwardly bent, as at b, so as to be readily flexible in a vertical plane as well as generally flexible horizontally, as in Figs. land 2. In this form to change the movable type 9 the bands g and the curved ends I) of the frame b are bent inward, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 4, until the type 9 can readily enter or be removed from the cut-out portion f of the stationary type-face f of the device.

Having thus described the nature and object of my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

Ahand-stamp, comprising a handle,a frame v IOO In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature in the presence of two subseribto I ing witnesses.

JOHN A. IIEANY.

Vitnesses:

J. WALTER DoUoLAss, THOMAS M. SMITH. 

